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[#VS2015] New features in Exception Settings (now as a panel!)

Hello! If you’re a fan of the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio, the you now and use CTRL + ALT + E. This is a classic one when you are in debug mode. This shortcut will display the Exception settings where you can define the type of exceptions in wich Visual Studio must interrupt in a debugging session. — read more

Apr 16, 2015
[#ALM] Is your team too big?

Hello! For us, the developers, when we talk about the ideal size of a team, we always tend to think in the number 7. It may be because of the Scrum and agile methodologies influence, but it seems that 7 is a number that we all feel comfortable. Today April 15th, I strongly believe that 7 is the ideal — read more

Apr 15, 2015
[#VS2015] TFS Source Control Explorer Extension for Visual Studio 2015

Hello! I’ve got to start with this “this extension is a #MustHave if you work with Visual Studio and TFS”. And now the good news, now is available for Visual Studio 2015. I think that after this, I have fewer chances to go back to VS2013, and my work will be done from Visual Studio 2015 By — read more

Apr 14, 2015
[#MACHINELEARNING] #Amazon joins the game ;)

Hello! A couple of days ago I wrote a post with some additional options to Azure Machine Learning to start in the world of Machine Learning. Not long ago, and following the footsteps of AzureML, Amazon has now presented its ML service called Amazon Machine Learning. Did not put the Credit Card to still view — read more

Apr 13, 2015
[#ALM] Visual Studio Online free eBook (eng)

Hello! Excellent news if you are looking for some new content to add in your Kindle. If you are looking for a good intro for manage agile projects using Visual Studio Online as main platform, you’ve to thanks our Microsoft Press friends. They now give you the chance of free download the following book: ‘ Managing Agile Open-Source Software Projects — read more

Apr 12, 2015
[#RESHARPER] R# for C++, there let’s go for #IoT

Good! Yesterday in a thread on Twitter, some cronies began to talk about the benefits of JavaScript. Others commented that not all JavaScript in life and I told them that in the world of the brave, we are back to C++. For example Visual Studio as C++ development IDE is very good. The truth is — read more

Apr 10, 2015
[#VS2015] #MachineLearning and Visual Studio? 3 platforms for a quick start

Hello! When you create apps using Arduino, Galileo or any of these platforms, the amount of data that you can generate is quite big. Yesterday I wrote a post where I commented an almost real example, about how the information on the consumption habits of a person and a series of connected devices can be the basis — read more

Apr 9, 2015
[#IOT] Glitter problems at home, Amazon #Dash and Azure #MachineLearning

Hello! A couple of days I was painting with my 5-year-old girl and we realized that we had been out of glitter. As a parent this is one of the moments more happy complicated ever. Glitter is something that girls love to use in their art work. However, I discovered in the bad way that GLITTER is impossible to — read more

Apr 8, 2015
[#VS2015] #Unity5 y Visual Studio? Ohh yeah :D

Hi! As an early adopter, you probably upgraded all your projects to Unity 5 a couple of weeks ago. And after this amazing moment, you realized that you’ve lost all the nice integration with Visual Studio 😦 Now happy days are back! You can go back to enjoy your life because the latest version of Visual — read more

Apr 6, 2015
[#HUMOR] #ToDo Lists, they usually ends like this one … :S

Hi! Yesterday I wrote about the importance on personal time management, with a ToDo list … sobre la importancia de saber auto gestionar nuestras tareas … But, I’m the first one to admit they usually ends like this one Greetings @ Home /El Bruno Source: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/11/todoxls.html — read more

Apr 5, 2015
[#ALM] The importance of your #ToDo list

Hello! This post is not going to be related to a development methodology or even to developers. If you’re a person who uses some method to organize your daily tasks, this is where I want to go now. I’ll try to describe my own experiences about how you can improve your time management approach, simply improving the way in which — read more

Apr 4, 2015
[#VS2015] No more Premium or Ultimate, now is #Enterprise!

Hello! I’m not yet in a position to write a post for the April’s fools day, but it will come. Today what is new is that model licenses and versions of Visual Studio will finally start to get more human with Visual Studio 2015. The main change is that from now on, the main version name is Visual — read more

Apr 1, 2015
[#OPINION] My honest opinion about “meetings addicts”

Hello! I was reading this entry on Forbes “The Art and Science of Team Optimization” (link), and I remembered a talk we had a few days ago with a few coworkers about those people addicted to meetings. I’m not a SME in biology , but if you want to identify them is very easy. The following — read more

Mar 31, 2015
[#OPINION] Be ready for a #hackathon like you’ll do for a half marathon

Hello! Yesterday I ran the Madrid’s Half Marathon and now that spring is here, those 21K in Madrid are quite funny. In Avanade we have a Yammer group for runners, and in the past days before the race someone shared a list of 10 tips for the day of the race. (By the way, I already wrote about — read more

Mar 30, 2015
[#OPINION] The non easy path from Managers to Leaders

Hello! There is plenty of books, posts, etc. related to the “managers problem”. Besides the unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy levels that are usually added within an organization, managers jobs tend to be the main rope to the neck which a professional can face at some point in this career. I usually told the story of — read more

Mar 27, 2015
[#VS2013] Node.js tools V1.0, much more important than you think

Hello! After a couple of posts about the plugin in Visual Studio to work with NodeJs, we reach to final version 1.0.So here is a not so “great” news if you’re a Visual Studio developer. However, from another perspective: There are formal channels that echo on how Microsoft is changing and opening / promoting these — read more

Mar 26, 2015
[#VS2015] Where to look to start a little dev for #Windows10? course in #GitHub

Hello! The official launch for the Windows 10 Dev tools was yesterday. It goes all around from Visual Studio 2015 to Team Foundation 2015, including some cool stuff like Visual Studio Tools, and other extensions. And that’s the easy one, you just only have download the bits. Now, as a good developer, our body does not need — read more

Mar 24, 2015
[#IOT] 2 options to save you backend work #LabOfThings and #ConnectTheDots

Good! One of the most important parts in a solution of IoT is the decision of the type of backend which we will use. If you are a craft person, chances are that you think your own hub based in WebApi and hostees on AZURE. Then it will be time to think on topics such — read more

Mar 23, 2015
[#HUMOR] RIP #InternetExplorer ;)

Hi! Después de 20 años uno tal vez debería tenerle un poco de cariño … veo que internet comparte mi opinión After 20 years together, you may probably think to have some love with IE, … internet thinks the same 😀 Regards @ Madrid /El Bruno Sources http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/03/17/goodbye-internet-explorer/ http://9gag.com/gag/aYWL4Dv/rip-internet-explorer http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/18/we-wont-miss-internet-explorer-but-we-will-miss-the-memes-5109057/ http://www.cuantarazon.com/948381/internet-explorer — read more

Mar 22, 2015
[#IOT] Microsoft IoT Azure contest by #CodeProject, $10000 … so cool !!!

Hello! CodeProject friends have launched a contest about Internet Of Things based on Azure wich is very nice. The prize is $10 K (subject to the typical restrictions), and the interesting thing is that it is open to any idea you have and use devices and Azure to collect, aggregate, and explote data. From what I understand, can range — read more

Mar 20, 2015